Folder Options

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The Folders options tab in the Advanced Files Options window allows you to specify where the files generated by Arles should be stored.

Folder names

Thumbnails folder

Folder containing thumbnails images generated by Arles.

Image pages folder

Folder containing HTML image pages generated by Arles.

Images folder

Folder containing images copied or modified by Arles.

Original images folder

Folder containing copied original images. This folder is only created if you link the thumbnails or images to the original images.

Navigation and background images folder

Folder containing navigation and background images, which are used on the HTML pages.

Stylesheets folder

Location of stylesheet files (*.css).

Options

Target folder

Places the image files in the target folder.

Subfolder

Places the image files in a subfolder of the target folder. Specify the subfolder name in the edit field.

You can specify multi-level subfolders by using slashes (e.g. "imagepages/images"). Relative paths (e.g. "../../arlesimages") are also allowed. Relative paths are always in reference to the source folder. If you want a fixed path use the User Defined option.

For the navigation images the subfolder is always with reference to the index pages. For image pages the path is automatically corrected, to make sure there are no duplicate folders.

User defined

For experienced users only!

The user defined option allows you to specify what you want to be placed in front of each file name. It is mostly used to specify a custom path.

You can use User Defined location if you have several image galleries on your web server and want them to share the same navigation images to avoid duplicate images. You can do this by setting the Navigation and background images to User Defined. Next set the User defined path to:

http://www.yourdomain.com/navigation_images/

Don't forget the trailing slash or the path will be broken. Arles will now create galleries with navigation images like this:

You will have to place the correct images in the navigation_images folder yourself.

Arles will not create files if you set the location type to User Defined. Therefore, depending on what locations you set to User Defined, some parts of the generated gallery will be broken when you click the Show Results button. You have to make sure that you place required files in the right location on the web server to make things work.

When using User Defined for the images, you can also not use title tags that contain information about created images. For example, you can not use file size title tag. As Arles does not create the images, it also does not know the size of the created images.

Folder tags

Two folder tags can be used in subfolder or user-defined folders. Both are for advanced users only and are used in combination with the multi-folder processing feature.

This tag will be replaced with the source folder name. If the processed folder is "c:\images\holidays\2005\greece", it will replace the <FolderName> tag with "greece".

This tag only works when multi-folder processing and inserts path from the root folder to the source folder.

If your root folder is "c:\images" and you are processing "c:\images\holidays\2005\greece", it will replace the <PathFromRootFolder> tag with "/holidays/2005/greece". This feature is especially helpful if your images are hosted in another location than your galleries.

Stylesheet options

Embedded

Style information is embedded in the <head> section of the index and image pages. Select this option if you don't want separate style sheet files.

HTML folders

The style sheet files will be placed in the same folder as the index page or image pages.

User defined

For experienced users only!

The user defined option allows you to specify what you want to be place in front of each file name. You can use it to specify a custom path for the stylesheet location. For example, if you set the user defined path to:

http://www.yourdomain.com/stylesheets/

Arles will add the following link in the <head> section of the generated html pages:

With the User Defined stylesheet locations, no stylesheets will be created. You will have to create and put the stylesheet are the correct location yourself.

None

For experienced users only! No stylesheets and links to stylesheets will be created. The class names will still be available, which allows you to edit and link your own stylesheets.